

Sixth student describes the association of each Chinese year with twelve animals. What do the red packets contain and when are opened is also told with the help of charts. The fifth presenter explains the giving of good luck gifts which are presented by the elders to the children and unmarried members of the family.

She also describes that the word “eight” means “prosperity” and the word “nine” means “long-lasting”. The fourth learner tells the class about the ‘New Year’s Eve Dinner’ containing eight or nine foods by pointing to the chart having pictures of nine different dishes. She also explains that the Chinese word ‘fu’ means luck and happiness and flowers symbolize coming of spring and a new beginning. The third student tells about decorating the house by pointing to the pictures representing decoration of house and windows. By pointing to the colorful charts representing cleaning and clothes, she explains how black dress is associated to death and red clothes associated to warding off bad spirits and cleaning after ‘New Year’s Day’ is associated with throwing out the good fortune for the new year. The second student describes the cleaning of houses and buying new clothes before the new year celebrations. She tells about the prominent items of celebrations, all of them focusing on good luck for the new year and coming of spring. Then the first student comes, points to the chart and defines the lunar calendar followed by Chinese people. Phase I: The leader of the flow chart activity comes in front of class and introduces the lesson “Chinese New Year” The volunteers have pasted the charts in proper arrangement.


Q =5 = What kind of injury had the third patient? Q =4 = How did the mother provided first aid to young girl suffering from sun stroke?
